CVE-2003-0900: Larry Wall Perl

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Perl 5.8.1 on Fedora Core does not properly initialize the random number generator when forking, which makes it easier for attackers to predict random numbers.

Affected products

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.